Seattle

Welcome to the Seattle Users' Group!

The SEADUG meets regularly (at least once a month officially) to talk about Drupal, to plan Drupal events like Drupal Camp, and have some Drupal Fun. During SEADUG meetings we showcase modules and projects. Share tips and tricks and answer nagging questions about Drupal. We've discussed possible "barn raisings" for worthy organizations or code sprinting on modules.

This is a geographic Drupal User Group meant primarily for planning local Drupal related events and meetups, and supporting users locally.

PLEASE do not post job offers in this group unless they are local to Seattle. Any job posted to this group that is not in the Seattle/Puget Sound Metropolitan Area will be promptly removed.

The Pacific Northwest PHP Conference is a three-day event (September 15-17, 2016) for PHP developers in the Pacific Northwest region. Last year's conference was attended by nearly 200 PHP developers, and this year's event is going to be even bigger. PNWPHP 2016 will be held at the Cornish Playhouse, which is a beautiful theater within the Seattle Center grounds, nearly in the shadow of the iconic Space Needle.

As mentioned in the last Seattle user group, we're hosting a "Hack for Hope" to work on the HopeOneSource project on Saturday August, 27th at 10:00am. We'll be meeting up at the Cellar Door Media offices at 938 Broadway Tacoma, WA 98402.

Flame out on #drupal-seattle IRC (6/15/2016)
[17:53] {jwalling} Is IRC dead?
[17:55] {jwalling} Walking dead IRC
[17:56] {jwalling} With so many alternatives, (Slack Gitter etc.) IRC is becoming a ghost town.
[18:01] {jwalling} For example, you need a playbook to participate in BackdropCMS discussions https://backdropcms.org/resources
[18:02] {jwalling} Is it going to get worse before it gets better?
[18:03] {jwalling} It reminds of the old TV days when you had 3 networks, now there are 5000 channels on 100 media, with more every day

PNW PHP 2016 is a Seattle PHP conference with about 250-350 people in attendance. They're looking for submissions from the Drupal community. It would be great if you all could share this with someone who's been deep in the technical side of Drupal who could speak at a conference (or submit a session if that sounds like you!).

Composer is the current standard for managing PHP project dependencies. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to use it, along with other open source tools, to manage and deploy Drupal websites in a streamlined fashion. You'll learn how to keep the number of files in your project's repository to a minimum, avoiding the need to commit Drupal core and contributed projects with your codebase. You'll learn how to track changes to your site's configuration using version control and prevent configuration from being changed on a live site.

We use Mandrill for many of our clients for handling transactional emails and ♥ it, you may remember us talking about it at a prior meeting. Now they are closing their free service and we are sad. Many of our clients will likely be looking to move to some other provider that offers a free option for the relatively small amount of transactional emails they send. So, I have some questions: